Now homeless, jobless, face visa issue in Taiwan By IAN M.KAUKUINewsroom, Honiara ABOUT twelve local students who have completed their studies in Taiwan are now stranded after they could not travel back over the weekend due to a lack of an airline ticket. Reports said the students turned up at the airport in Taipei on…
CHIA Tai Enterprises Ltd logging company claimed the call to halt its logging operation on Abarafi tribal land is not right as an agreement was legally made between the company and the rightful landowner trustees. The logging company made the statement in response to the so-called Abarafi Tribal Landowners Association Incorporation (ATLOAI)’s call to halt…
When is dishonesty theft? By Alfred Sasako JANE (not her real name) is this month counting her blessings. She almost lost $5, 000 of lifetime savings in a “mistake” by a teller in one of the four foreign-owned commercial banks in a bungle earlier this month. Jane lives and teaches in a rural school…
CENTRAL Honiara by-election contender Pauline Radoe Firisua says the constituency must take care of the needs of its children, youth, and women. She was speaking at the launch of her election campaign at the Honiara High School Hall yesterday. Mrs. Firisua was one of 10 candidates, and one of the three female contenders, vying for…
Alex Waimora’s dream for change By ESTHER NURIA NEWSROOM HONIARA Former International Football Player and KOSSA Technical Analyst Alex Waimora recently shared his story to the change-makers program about his love for football and how he wanted to help children and youths to peruse their goals in football. Alex Waimora started his sporting career in…
The Members of the Malaita Provincial government had conducted a low key reconciliation ceremony amongst themselves after the assembly meeting at the greenhouse on 23rd October in Auki. The reconciliation was opened with a word of prayer led by the MPA for Ward 20 Jimmy Rerehe to wind up the revised budget meeting for 2020/2021.…
Ministry of Health and Medical Services stated that ‘Nursing in Solomon Island needs to consider advanced nursing practices and extended nursing roles’. Dr. Culwick Togamana made the statement during the 2020 Nurses Registration ceremony on Friday 23 October at St. Barnabas Cathedral. “In a country where many of its programs are nurse-led with a continuous…
Malaita Premier Daniel Suidani has announced that an amendment to the Malaita province Business License Ordinance was passed by the assembly in July 2020. The premier made the announcement during the assembly meeting on the 16th October 2020 in Auki. He said the executive had already endorsed the Fisheries Management Ordinance 2020. The premier further…
A West Are’Are Community leader is urging the Government to table the Report on the MV Taimareho disaster in Parliament, saying relatives of those who perished in the tragedy want closure so they can move on. Twenty-seven people, including women and children, died in the sea disaster when the West Are’Are Constituency ship was hit…
THE Civil Aviation Authority of Solomon Islands (CAASI) within the Ministry of Communication and Aviation is glad to receive assistance in the form of USB drives from the New Zealand High Commission Office in the Solomon Islands as part of its support following the burning down of the CAASI office earlier this year. Director of…